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Like rigorous philosophy, Trey Moody’s poems begin with immediate evidence, then move outward, examining nature, weather, history, and ghosts.
List of contents
1
We Use Spoons Mostly
What We First Said
Climate Reply
A Weather [Why a. Why not…]
The Fallacy of Perfection
A Weather [Snow falls thick…]
Like Hearing For from That
Chatter
A Weather [Land absorbs sound…]
This Forest Isn’t a Room
A Feather Protruding from the Mouth
A Weather [While waiting…]
The Seating
A Weather [Said sand molds…]
Salina, Kansas
A Weather [Summer’s scalding echo…]
Dear Ghosts,
2: Lancaster County Notebook
The Good Life
Travelogue
To, But
Attention
In Crossing
By Hand
Act of Interpretation
Only What
Spring
Between Both
Nourishment
Distance
An Explanation
That Abstraction
Perfect Potential
3
Same-Day Resolution
A Weather [Since it is raining…]
Both
Everything Is Not for Everyone
A Weather [A certain sound…]
Yes, This Is May
A Weather [Heat: winter’s memory…]
Exercise in Patience
Backyard
A Weather [Color claims consistency…]
A Note on Silence
This Hemisphere of Leaves
A Weather
Praise
A Weather
Remembering the Original
Dear—
About the author
Trey Moody is from San Antonio, earned an MFA from Texas State University, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently, How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Washington Square.
Summary
Like rigorous philosophy, Trey Moody’s poems begin with immediate evidence, then move outward, examining nature, weather, history, and ghosts.
Foreword
$2500 marketing and publicity budget
Co-op available
Galleys available: national mailings with special push to publications with environmental interest
Advertising in Poets & Writers, Writer's Chronicle, and Rain Taxi Review of Books
eBook available at same time as print publication, eBook ISBN to be included on all press materials and wherever print ISBN is listed. Author will promote both mediums through social media.
Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs
Electronic postcard to announce publication sent to Moody's contacts
Author will promote at Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference
